Customer 360 Guide for Retail BankingSalesforce, Winter ’22
CONTENTS
Customer 360 Guide for Retail Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Industry Blueprint for Retail Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Architecture for Retail Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Retail Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Business Scenarios for Retail Banking .
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. . . . 12 Explore Solution Kits for Retail Banking . . . . . . . .
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Optimize your onboarding and service processes to become the bank
your customers love.
The assets in this Customer 360 Guide help you build a vision and
make a plan for digital transformation in the retail banking
industry. Learn with Trailhead
Architectural diagrams and business scenarios show you how
Salesforce products combine with industry best practices to expand
your business capabilities. Solution Kits show you how to implement
Salesforce-recommended cross-cloud solutions to common retail use
cases.
Industry Blueprint for Retail Banking
Examine the Salesforce view of strategy, product innovation, and
partner relationships to enable front-end and back-end business
processes in retail banking.
Reference Architecture for Retail Banking
Map specific Salesforce products to the functional capabilities and
operational activities of the retail banking industry.
Solution Architecture for Retail Banking
Identify the specific tools and resources that can help you deliver
comprehensive automation solutions for your retail banking
business.
Business Scenarios for Retail Banking
Business scenarios help you bridge the gap between your
organization's business capabilities and the solutions needed to
achieve your goals. For each scenario, discover a variety of
Salesforce solutions that reduce your time to value and allow you
to define a roadmap to build out your organization’s
functionality.
Explore Solution Kits for Retail Banking
Enhance your cross-cloud business by implementing one or more
solution kits. Get product recommendations, workflow details, and
instructions to help you implement the solution from start to
finish.
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Customer 360 Guide for Retail Learning Map
Customer 360 Guides: Quick Look
Industry Blueprint for Retail Banking
Examine the Salesforce view of strategy, product innovation, and
partner relationships to enable front-end and back-end business
processes in retail banking.
The retail banking blueprint is a type of reference architecture
that describes the end-to-end customer lifecycle. Use the industry
blueprint to understand how Salesforce Customer 360 platform
capabilities help structure, organize, and support digital
transformation.
• Map customer-facing business capabilities that are common to
retail banking to the stages of the customer lifecycle across
marketing, sales, customer onboarding, origination, and
fulfillment, through to servicing and the post-sales
experience.
• Determine which capabilities are most important to your
organization and prioritize implementation accordingly.
• Organize projects that deliver business value with maximum
benefit.
• Understand the high-level platform capabilities and the
Salesforce partners needed to power your organization’s business
needs.
Contact your Salesforce account team or a Salesforce partner for
help with assessing the business and platform capabilities most
suited for your organization.
The typical lifecycle of a retail banking customer relationship has
eight phases, from pre-sales marketing to relationship
renewal.
Marketing and sales process management capabilities help retail
banks acquire new relationships and deepen existing ones.
• Market: Retail banks require marketing capabilities to drive
acquisition, customer support, and marketing operations
strategies.
• Lead: Banks identify, segment, and nurture leads.
• Prospect: After a lead shows interest or a referral agrees to be
contacted, sales activities focus on understanding the customer’s
needs and identifying products and services to recommend.
Onboarding, origination, and fulfillment capabilities include
traditional compliance capabilities, building an understanding of
the customer, and connecting customers with products and
services.
• Customer: Banks develop a deeper understanding of customer
preferences. Compliance checks performed at this time are
critical.
• Deposits and Lending: Origination, underwriting, documentation,
and booking and funding processes are completed.
• Services: Banks set up services associated with a newly booked
account, enable customers for those services, and execute
documents.
Customer support plus renew and grow capabilities address customer
needs as they evolve.
• Customer Support: Service levels vary depending on customer
needs. Support includes basic transaction inquiries to researching
more complex service needs, which can include complaint
resolution.
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• Renew and Grow: Banks deepen connections with customers and grow
relationships by advising on changing service needs.
Salesforce partners with independent software vendors (ISVs) and
consultants to extend platform capabilities to suit business
processes. Industry-specific integrations and complete solutions
are also available from retail banking fintechs. To learn more
about ready-to-install applications, solutions, or consultants,
check out AppExchange.
Note: To understand how industry and business requirements link to
the technologies that support them, review the Retail Banking
Reference Architecture. Use the industry blueprint as a framework
to create a reference architecture for planning customer experience
enhancements.
Standard Salesforce platform capabilities include platform enablers
and API and data sources for all stages of the retail banking
customer lifecycle. These foundation capabilities support
custom-built solutions.
Note: To understand which business capabilities, solutions, and
Salesforce products can help your organization achieve the business
needs identified on the blueprint, review retail banking business
scenarios.
SEE ALSO:
Map specific Salesforce products to the functional capabilities and
operational activities of the retail banking industry.
Salesforce provides configurable product solutions that support a
banking institution’s ability to engage their customers
effectively. The reference architecture helps communicate the
vision and strategy of a solution to business executives and
stakeholders. Learn with Trailhead.
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Reference Architecture for Retail BankingCustomer 360 Guide for
Retail Banking
Conceptualize business success in each of three categories of
capabilities: Foundational, Platform, and Functional.
Our reference architecture presents Platform and Functional
capabilities. Each layer contains a representative subset of
systems or capabilities that are most relevant for Retail Banking
industry. It doesn’t list all possible systems or
capabilities.
Platform Capabilities These components form the underlying
technology base for achieving your goals. Each layer in the
platform builds on top of the next. B2B and B2C systems typically
rely on these elements.
Data Sources Data sources are systems that create, collect, and
manage various types of data. These systems can act as systems of
record. They’re often purpose-built to handle particular
functionality and data requirements. Some address general system
needs.
Integrations Integrations include tools and routes that connect
systems of record with each other or with higher-level experiences.
Integrations are varied tools, such as APIs that connect separate
systems, single sign-on services to manage customer identity across
different systems, and customer data platforms to segment
customers.
Analytics and Intelligence Analytics helps you better understand
your data and make smart business decisions. Smart automation like
machine learning and AI helps you optimize your use of customer
data. The intelligence layer serves functions like delivering
actionable customer insights, personalized product recommendations,
and improving real-time customer interactions to enhance your
customer relationships and drive sales.
Platform Enablers Platform Enablers are a set of capabilities that
enable your business to track customers as they interact with your
bank based on their point in the customer journey. The capabilities
represent the day zero to lifetime engagement with a customer and
support internal employees as they onboard these customers.
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Functional Capabilities Business-specific elements at the
functional capabilities level are connected more directly to the
customer’s experience and measured in terms of maturity. Successful
implementation of functional capabilities depends heavily on
implementation of the platform capabilities.
The retail bank’s lifecycle typically crosses multiple engagement
channels in the areas of Marketing, Sales, Onboarding, Servicing,
and Growing. Digital engagements and self-serve channels are
necessary for the companies to address new business needs related
to the Covid-19 pandemic.
To identify strategic goals around which to focus your
implementation, review these frequently required functional
capabilities.
A Business Capability Maturity Assessment arranged by your Success
Manager or Account Executive can help you determine which areas of
your business can benefit from more focus.
Mapping Platform Capabilities to Salesforce
Specific Salesforce products handle each of the needs identified at
the platform capability level.
Identify gaps in your underlying capabilities by customizing this
model to include other Salesforce products or third-party systems
in your current technology stack. To explore the reference
architecture specific to your business, contact your success
manager or account team.
Tip: Business Scenarios on page 12 help you better understand your
business capabilities and find solutions that support your business
goals.
Learn more about Salesforce products.
• Financial Services Cloud
Reference Architecture for Retail BankingCustomer 360 Guide for
Retail Banking
Salesforce Architectural Diagrams: Quick Look
Industry Blueprint for Retail Banking
Solution Architecture for Retail Banking
Business Scenarios for Retail Banking
Solution Architecture for Retail Banking
Identify the specific tools and resources that can help you deliver
comprehensive automation solutions for your retail banking
business.
Solution architecture diagrams show you how recommended products
interoperate with backend systems and how data is passed between
them. Learn with Trailhead.
Retail Banking Solution Architecture with Key Clouds
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The Salesforce Retail Banking architecture runs on two highly
scalable and interoperable platforms: the core Salesforce Platform
and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Products built on the Salesforce Platform (1) include Financial
Service Cloud, Vlocity, Tableau CRM, and Experience Cloud. These
products all operate on the same logical platform and share a
flexible, common, and interoperable financial service data
model.
• Financial Service Cloud is a superset of Sales Cloud and Service
Cloud features customized for financial service firms. Financial
Service Cloud integrates sales, service, and marketing capabilities
to provide a consistent experience across financial services
departments and channels.
• The Lightning Platform provides an open set of APIs to enable
integration with other Salesforce and non-Salesforce systems.
Pre-built connectors such as Heroku go even further to enable other
expedited integration options.
• The Salesforce Platform can be used in several ways.
• As a customer master–
– As an editable or non-editable certified copy of customer master
data
– To integrate with a third Master Data Management system
The Salesforce Marketing Cloud (2) is a powerful suite of
communication and marketing automation tools designed for
interoperability.
• Datorama offers deep marketing analytics.
• Interaction Studio provides real-time interaction management,
personalization, and AI-drive recommendations.
• Social Studio enables social monitoring and social media
interaction management.
• Pardot provides powerful email automation to help marketing and
sales teams find and nurture the best leads, close more deals, and
maximize ROI.
• Advertising Studio uses first-party data to shape and guide
advertising.
• Audience Studio helps companies offer their customers a
personalized advertising and media experience based on segmentation
and audience Insights.
• Journey Builder stitches these tools together. It provides
campaign management and delivers cross-channel, personalized
experiences at every step of the customer lifecycle.
Tableau (3) is a business intelligence platform and has direct
connections to the rest of the Salesforce ecosystem. Tableau
provides analytics independent of data sources.
Mulesoft Anypoint Platform (4) is an integration platform designed
for service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service
(SaaS), and APIs. Mule ESB, CloudHub iPaaS, API Manager, and
hundreds of SaaS and on-premises connectors and templates are the
building blocks of this unique connectivity platform for
integration.
• Use APIs to connect applications, data, and devices, both
on-premises and in the cloud.
• Rearchitect a service-oriented architecture from legacy systems,
proprietary platforms, and customer integration code.
• Migrate technology infrastructure to the public or private cloud,
and prioritize adoption of SaaS applications and other cloud
technologies.
• Deploy integrations in a hybrid environment, connecting to SaaS
applications and on-premises systems.
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Retail Banking Solution Architecture with Connectors
Pre-built Salesforce connectors enable the connectivity that allows
the cross-cloud actions required to support sophisticated use
cases. These types of use cases include delivering a follow-up
email based on customer inquiry about their financial goals.
Marketing Cloud Connect (1) connects Marketing platform products
with Sales and Service Cloud products. The connector quickly and
easily allows data to sync between these two clouds. It also allows
Marketing Cloud products to trigger events such as emails and
journeys based on Financial Services Cloud data.
• Automatically sync data from Financial Services Cloud to
Marketing Cloud.
• Connect Journey Builder to other clouds.
• Use Financial Services Cloud data to construct highly
personalized emails.
• Provide Marketing Cloud email tracking data to Financial Services
Cloud.
Distributed Marketing (2) allows individual Financial Services
Cloud users, such as financial service representatives, brokers,
advisors, or loan officers, to view, personalize, and send
on-brand, best practices content through Marketing Cloud.
• Use data stored in contact, lead, or person account records to
address emails.
• Craft email to a segment of customers based on a specific
filtered list.
• Send email about a campaign to a group of customers based on a
touchpoint cadence managed by Marketing Cloud.
Heroku Connect (3) syncs data between the Heroku app platform and
the core Salesforce Platform.
• Create a data lake.
• Build, deploy, and run apps inside smart containers within a
fully managed runtime environment. Heroku handles critical
production elements including configuration, orchestration, loan
balancing, failovers, logging, and security.
• Create highly scalable customer facing mobile and web
applications that sync usage and relevant data with Financial
Services Cloud.
• Build data-driven apps with fully managed data services.
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Solution Architecture for Retail Banking Customer Onboarding
Understand key Salesforce architecture for building a customer
profile and engaging AI to support customer acquisition.
Banking Solution Architecture for Compliance Scenario
Understand key Salesforce architecture that helps retail banks
improve their compliance and audit posture.
Banking Solution Architecture for Digital Experiences
Scenario
Understand key Salesforce architecture for supporting digital
transformation in the retail banking industry.
Banking Solution Architecture for Service Engagements
Scenario
Understand key Salesforce architecture used to manage and close
cases, engage customers with timely communications, and make secure
connections with remote systems.
SEE ALSO:
Solution Architecture for Retail Banking Customer Onboarding
Understand key Salesforce architecture for building a customer
profile and engaging AI to support customer acquisition.
The process of seeding and growing a customer’s profile flows
through four stages as the customer’s connection to the bank
expands.
• An anonymous, unknown prospect identified as a single web
browser
• A unique prospect identified by a cookie
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• Fully connected customer with a comprehensively populated
customer record
In the initial phase of the customer’s onboarding journey,
Marketing Cloud (1) gathers information about the prospect’s
expressed interests based on their digital interactions and areas
they visit. At this point, the customer can be a known individual
or an anonymous, browsing prospect.
Financial Services Cloud (2) incrementally captures more
information about the prospect’s needs, interests, and product
choices based on their continued interactions. Financial Services
Cloud and Marketing Cloud begin building a customer profile based
on interaction data, without directly asking the customer for any
data.
At the qualified lead stage, Einstein Intelligence (3) continually
reviews the customer’s inferred or declared product interests and
optimizes the customer’s experience in real time. AI helps in
making appropriate suggestions at the right time to move the
customer along their purchasing journey.
Banking Solution Architecture for Compliance Scenario Understand
key Salesforce architecture that helps retail banks improve their
compliance and audit posture.
Harness the built-in compliance framework within Financial Services
Cloud (1) to capture, track, report, and manage compliance
activities.
Shield (2) provides enhanced audit trails for sensitive data, more
logging and monitoring features with longer retention periods, and
bring-your-own-key encryption for data at rest.
Mulesoft (3) integrates with and respects the extra controls that
Shield and Salesforce Identity provide to further protect the
customer and their data.
Experience Cloud (4) connects your digital experiences with your
customer data. Integrate data from any source by pulling in data
from Salesforce, third-party products, or legacy sources and
linking it to Experience Cloud objects. Create tailored experiences
by using integrated data to define audiences and target users with
personalized content. Keep compliance on track by measuring,
analyzing, and optimizing digital experiences with customizable
Lightning Experience dashboards in the Experience Workspaces.
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Identity (5) provides identity and access management (IAM)
services. Create cloud-based user directories so user accounts and
information are stored and maintained in one place, while making it
available to other services or apps. Identify handles
authentication services including multi-factor authentication,
access management, and authorization for third-party app, app user
provisioning, and event logging. Build customizations using API.
Identity Connect integrates Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to
allow users to access Salesforce without logging in again.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud (6) and Experience Cloud provide the
ability to monitor cross-channel touchpoints and capture customer,
partner, and employee interactions. Marketing Cloud also provides
deeper experience analysis by reporting on a customer’s view and
click behavior.
Tableau CRM (7) and Tableau (8) integrate with compliance-related
records to assemble, present, and report on required
activities.
A wide variety of other partner solutions are available on
AppExchange (9) to reduce the amount of internal effort and time
required to enhance the level of compliance.
Banking Solution Architecture for Digital Experiences Scenario
Understand key Salesforce architecture for supporting digital
transformation in the retail banking industry.
Financial Service Cloud (1) provides the foundational platform for
digital transformation across the entire customer lifecycle. Data
models within Financial Service Cloud enable rapid transformation
from traditional to digital channels. Harness and ingest data from
any existing digital channel (2), including web, mobile, social,
app, text, and chat channels, to reach customers where they
are.
Salesforce Knowledge and Experience Cloud (3) enable self-service
across various topics so that customers can resolve issues without
contacting the bank.
Mulesoft Anypoint Platform (4) allows integrations that optimize
the customer’s and the banker’s time by creating reusable,
automated flows that seamlessly complete transactions and
communicate in real time.
Configure Lightning Platform (5) to send proactive notifications
for self-defined or bank-defined events, saving customers time and
money.
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Banking Solution Architecture for Service Engagements Scenario
Understand key Salesforce architecture used to manage and close
cases, engage customers with timely communications, and make secure
connections with remote systems.
Financial Services Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Mulesoft work
together as a platform from which to transform customer service in
the retail banking industry.
Financial Services Cloud (1) provides an engagement layer platform
on which to build consolidated, intelligent, and time-saving
customer service interfaces. Service agents and managers can
resolve many types of issues immediately, leading to higher
customer satisfaction and retention. For cases requiring multiple
touch points and extended resolution times, having complete
information presented in a single view allows for an improved
customer experience and faster resolution.
Marketing Cloud (2) includes communication automation capabilities
to create and build experience journeys and engagement with a
customer before, during and after service interactions. The
Marketing Cloud platform creates a smooth customer experience by
triggering confirmation messages, follow-up emails, texts, status
updates, and in-app notifications.
Mulesoft Anypoint Platform (3) enables rapid creation of APIs to
connect servicing systems used across a financial services firm.
Mulesoft uses a hierarchical API approach and provides a powerful
and dynamic environment to run, maintain, and secure these new APIs
from cybersecurity attacks.
Business Scenarios for Retail Banking
Business scenarios help you bridge the gap between your
organization's business capabilities and the solutions needed to
achieve your goals. For each scenario, discover a variety of
Salesforce solutions that reduce your time to value and allow you
to define a roadmap to build out your organization’s
functionality.
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Successful execution of core functions requires an organization to
have certain expertise, or business capabilities. Understanding
what business capabilities are needed to achieve this scenario
helps cross-functional teams in your organization align and better
strategize around technology solutions.
Get the Most Out of Best Practices Following best practices, and
selecting the right solutions and products for your organization
are key to a successful implementation of business scenarios.
Follow these steps to make use of business scenarios.
1. Review business capabilities required to achieve this business
scenario.
2. Assess the maturity levels of your organization’s business
capabilities.
3. Review the best practices with minimum maturity level to
understand how your business can improve in each area of
capability.
4. Review products and solutions to get quick time to value and
build a roadmap as you increase your maturity.
To arrange a Business Capability Maturity Assessment, contact your
Success Manager or Account Executive.
Explore Retail Banking Business Scenarios
Optimize Customer Onboarding
Streamlining onboarding as part of the digital transformation
journey helps return to growth by building intelligent customer
experiences across the customer lifecycle. Lay the ground work for
efficient, personalized, and connected retail banking right from
the start by establishing a customer profile.
Enable Operational Compliance
Streamline and simplify retail banking compliance processes to
better adhere to regulations and reduce exposure to risk.
Elevate Digital Experiences
Meet customers’ rising expectations for digital retail banking
experiences by delivering personalized and connected experiences
across all channels.
Transform Service Engagements
Deliver more intelligent service by unifying retail bankers,
operations staff, and support agents around a single, shared
system.
Optimize Customer Onboarding Streamlining onboarding as part of the
digital transformation journey helps return to growth by building
intelligent customer experiences across the customer lifecycle. Lay
the ground work for efficient, personalized, and connected retail
banking right from the start by establishing a customer
profile.
Optimize onboarding by integrating customer acquisition, discovery,
compliance, and renewal to deliver a unified experience to
customers and bankers alike. Remove friction from compliance
motions and create a solid foundation for review and renewal by
establishing a customer profile early on in the process. Enrich the
process over time to address inefficiencies.
Products These products can help you deliver intelligent field
service.
• Financial Services Cloud
Solution Architecture Review the Solution Architecture for Retail
Banking Customer Onboarding to learn about Salesforce architecture
related to this business scenario.
Solutions Choose from Salesforce recommended solutions that you can
implement immediately, and put together a roadmap to build out more
mature capabilities over time. To help you find solutions that your
business is ready for right now, we divided resources into three
levels depending on complexity.
Beginning
• Email Studio: Building, Testing, and Sending Email
(Accelerator)
• Email Studio: Email Marketing Best Practices (Accelerator)
• Journey Strategy (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Data and Segmentation Basics (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Sending SMS Messages= (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Email Reporting Basics (Accelerator)
• Learn to Work in Financial Services Cloud
• Structure Your Data in Financial Services Cloud
• Financial Services Cloud Basics
• Email Studio: Email Personalization Basics (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Marketing Cloud Connect Overview
(Accelerator)
• Email Studio: Automate Email Segmentation (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Automate Data Imports (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Use Marketing Cloud Connect (Accelerator)
• Mortgage Mastery with Financial Services Cloud
• Record Rollups in Financial Services Cloud
• Salesforce CDP Basics
• Open Banking Platform Strategy
For more information, contact your Success Manager or Account
Executive.
Business Capabilities For each capability, whether it’s undeveloped
or industry-leading, we provide implementation information that you
can use to increase your business’ maturity.
Foundational Capabilities to Optimize Customer Onboarding
Drive progress across the retail bank’s business and deliver
solutions for all business lines.
Marketing Capabilities to Optimize Customer Onboarding
Create brand and offering awareness for customers, and give the
retail bank a rich, in-depth understanding of their
customers.
Foundational Capabilities to Optimize Customer Onboarding Drive
progress across the retail bank’s business and deliver solutions
for all business lines.
CASCADING BUSINESS GOALS Define the vision and strategy for every
initiative within the product, and map it to overall corporate
business goals.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Our programs loosely align with business, technology, and
operations from a unified perspective, but our strategies
aren’t
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
defined enough to enforce rigor between systems, people, and
processes.
Our evolving framework guides alignment, speed, consistency, and
trust for 50% or more of our business goals. We have a strategic
initiative to target at least 75% within the next 5 years.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Define strategies for aligning business, technology, and
operations.
2. Ensure that your business and operations teams support the
technology delivery model.
3. Coordinate across your teams so that releases meet the most
critical business needs.
4. To build trust with customers and stakeholders, plan quality
assurance into all phases of each build, test, and release.
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Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
1 (Beginning)Minimum Maturity Level
Business solutions are delivered and released in predictable,
frequent batches, driving continuous value delivery to the business
and our customers.
2 (Emerging)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Put together a multidisciplinary team of stakeholders who are
positioned to shift to a model that works well for software and
hardware.
2. Set up teams who understand the direct and indirect workflows
that enhance the employee and customer experience.
3. To encourage innovation while attracting, renewing, and
retaining talent, combine business goals and operations with value
realization.
4. Create explicit criteria that a user story must meet before
being accepted into the upcoming development cycle.
5. Write complete and comprehensive user stories.
• Provide context to allow prioritization.
• Show relationships between user stories.
6. Maintain a backlog of user stories.
7. To avoid costly back-and-forth discussion or rework, avoid
starting work on features that don’t have clearly defined
completion criteria.
8. Allow teams to push back on accepting work on ill-defined
features.
9. Plan releases and critical groups of functionality.
10. Display the entire solution from end-to-end.
RESEARCH AND DESIGN PRACTICE To inform products, services,
marketing, and processes design, set up a group of experts to
examine what users want and need.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Our practice is inconsistent, but we set up a group of business
users to define problems, set a vision, build roadmaps, and
implement solid changes.
1 (Minimal)Minimum Maturity Level
DescriptionLevelType
We implemented a basic framework to promote human-centered design
and keep users’ needs and experiences at the center of all
decisions, business processes, and technology delivery.
2 (Emerging)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Align people, processes, technology, and data around delivery of
thoughtfully designed customer and employee journeys.
2. Have cross-functional teams across design, strategy, and
operations collect feedback from customers, employees, partners,
communities, and shareholders.
3. Encourage rapid and continuous delivery by establishing lean
governance, human-led approaches to change, open lines of
communication, and agility to make changes as needed.
4. Create an environment in which business and IT work together in
partnership to determine how technology can drive business
goals.
5. Encourage conscious efforts to improve communication,
collaboration, and cooperation with a common vision for the free
flow of information, collaboration tools, and cross-functional
teams.
DATA PORTABILITY Provide customers the ability to request or
download their customer information in compliance with relevant
privacy laws.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Customers are able to update communication preferences, download
their own data, and request to be removed within a
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
reasonable time frame. However, these features aren’t available
instantaneously or via self-service.
For the most common use cases, self-service capabilities allow
customers to port their data with minimal friction.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Understand and honor what customers indicate they want done with
their data, including the right to be forgotten or
downloaded.
2. Focus IT and business partnerships on permitting data
portability changes that are compliant with regulations and
policies concerning consent and consumer rights.
3. Configure data processes and technology to be adaptable to
changes in regulations and to function across geographic
areas.
4. To accelerate execution and increase trust, reduce the
complexity of the IT footprint. Innovate in the areas of
automation, transparency, continuous integration, and continuous
value delivery.
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Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Technical best practices are used in some parts of the
organization, but they aren’t used universally.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
All teams follow best practices, but we only update best practices
on an ad hoc basis.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Designate an individual to own and maintain standardized
definitions across all tools, and identify a source of truth.
2. Enable security and performance monitoring, and ensure that your
checks for vulnerabilities include eCDN, WAF, third-party
integrations, bot attacks, and throttling.
3. Ensure that development, security, and operations work together
as one team.
4. Set up continuous deployment and operations monitoring.
5. Ensure that automation is in place and focused on continuous
improvement.
6. Create a process to support short lead time to change, reduced
mean recovery times, and frequent deployment.
Success Metrics
• Decrease the percentage of revenue to G&A
• Increase system reliability and resilience
• Increase data accuracy and trust
• Decrease the mean time to recovery
INFORMATION AND DATA ARCHITECTURE Provide structure and artifacts
that help facilitate relationships, access, and data and
information locations, including backup, availability, and
governance.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
A single course of truth architecture exists, but it isn’t
connected to all data centers and back-office teams or
workflows.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
Our architecture delivers a scalable and adaptable platform,
enabling a single source of truth and an end-to-end customer
experience.
5 (Leading)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Create a set of repeatable and transferable practices and
lessons learned by the systems of reference, record, and engagement
across technology tools.
2. Consider basing best practices on industry-leading practices.
Ensure that they’re supported by cross-functional teams committed
to their success.
3. Align technology structures with business practices to prevent,
detect, and mitigate risks to data, and to improve customer
experience, generate customer trust, and break down architectural
silos.
Success Metrics
• Decrease the percentage of revenue to G&A
• Increase system reliability and resilience
• Increase data accuracy and trust
• Decrease the mean time to recovery
MONITORING Judge system health and diagnose problems by collecting
and reviewing data such as metrics, text logging, and structured
event logging.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We have policies and procedures in place that all teams follow to
mitigate compliance risks, but they aren’t used uniformly by each
line of business or system.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
Business solutions are delivered and released in predictable,
frequent batches, driving continuous value delivery to the business
and our customers.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Define your initiatives with stakeholders, and communicate with
them about their business objectives and required compliance risk
factors.
2. Ensure that the technology and development processes prioritize
flexibility and swift iteration. And make sure that these processes
use modular, agile platforms such as minimal custom-code,
DevOps/CI/CD practices, citizen developers, and API-first
principles.
3. Establish training and regular reviews of policy and procedures
to standardize risk mitigation practices across all lines of
business.
Success Metrics
• Decrease the lead time to delivery
• Decrease the percentage of revenue to G&A
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• Decrease the mean time to recovery
COMPLIANCE AND RISK MITIGATION Ensure that solutions meet corporate
compliance requirements, and mitigate risk by establishing a set of
policies and procedures that all teams understand and follow.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We have a basic governance framework in place, but our teams don’t
always use it.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
We have a continuously evolving governance framework that guides
alignment, speed, consistency, and trust.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Set up a customer-centric framework for how the organization
operates and makes decisions that improve goal alignment, mitigate
business risk, and maintain compliance to deliver solutions at
speed.
2. Design a flexible path forward to implement a governance
framework that includes operating procedures and guardrails that
ensure and maintain customer trust.
3. Create a comprehensive guidebook that can help shrink
operational silos and improve distribution of responsibilities and
scale.
Success Metrics
• Reduce governance, development, duplication, rework, and failure
costs
• Reduce operational risk and associated costs
• Increase the product or initiative’s ROI
• Increase speed and percentage attainment of business key
performance indicators (KPIs)
Marketing Capabilities to Optimize Customer Onboarding Create brand
and offering awareness for customers, and give the retail bank a
rich, in-depth understanding of their customers.
PREFERENCE MANAGEMENT Enable customers to convey and manage their
communication preferences for content, language, channels, and
basic privacy such as opt-outs. Use AI to infer preferences.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
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DescriptionLevelType
Customers are able to select preferences, but they can’t easily
update preferences.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
Customers are able to select and update communication and privacy
preferences easily.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Make it easier for customers to state and change their content,
language, and channel preferences.
2. Make it clear to customers how to manage basic privacy
considerations such as opt-ins.
3. Use AI to infer preferences.
4. Streamline preference management across touchpoints by
incorporating preference management into your identity
system.
CONSENT MANAGEMENT Honor customer preferences for use of data and
data portability. Comply with consent rights policies and
regulations.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We use a basic approach to consent management where users are
notified that they’re automatically agreeing to our preferred
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
consent settings. It’s difficult for users to override our
preferred settings.
Our consent management system requires some development to adapt to
new or changing regulations. It uses positively declared,
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
not automatic, consent. It’s easy for users to see or change
consent settings.
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Allow customers to easily and flexibly manage
right-to-be-forgotten tasks.
2. Ensure that customer data policies are compliant with current
regulations and can be easily adapted to changes in regulations or
by geographic area. Policies include:
• Ensure that data processes port customers’ data to other systems
as much as possible.
• Minimize degradation of the value of and ability to use customer
data in other systems.
• Allow customers to easily and flexibly manage their opt-in or
opt-out status.
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Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We have a basic governance framework in place, but our teams don’t
always use the approach across teams.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
We use a policy-focused governance framework to drive efficiency.
Deliverables are inconsistent but match our compliance needs across
the organization.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. To ensure quality, availability, and compliance, strengthen data
governance. Support testing, marketing measurement, and sentiment
analysis by implementing a single view of the customer. Give
business users access to data and insights so they can base
decisions on facts. Make decisions using customer-centric key
performance indicators, such as customer satisfaction, net promoter
score, and customer lifetime value.
2. Grant all internal stakeholders insight into product usage and
performance. Provide customer stakeholders with proactive
insights.
3. We have a comprehensive, policy-oriented governance framework
that ensures on-time delivery of business capabilities at the
metadata level and APIs across all systems and processes.
4. To capture all business process and data flows, connect
corporate, market, and business teams' data with back-office
infrastructure and call centers.
5. Create an omni-channel journey for segments, contact groups,
values, and region with product strategy and mix.
6. IT and business operate and are funded as one team focused on
customer success. Technology is viewed as a force-multiplier.
7. Our organization always organizes teams around desired outcomes,
not functional roles or silos in systems.
8. We follow a documented process to gather, interpret, and share
all insights and product- and service-related data.
Success Metrics
• Increase the average lifetime value per customer
• Reduce the unsubscribe rate, as measured by percentage
• Reduce the average cost per campaign
• Reduce the customer attrition rate
Enable Operational Compliance Streamline and simplify retail
banking compliance processes to better adhere to regulations and
reduce exposure to risk.
The banking industry faces unrelenting pressure to adhere to
regulations. Managing adherences and accountability in this
constantly changing landscape traditionally requires dozens of
systems, processes, and manual workarounds.
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Products These products can help you streamline and simplify the
compliance process.
• Financial Services Cloud
Solution Architecture Review the Solution Architecture for Retail
Banking Operational Compliance to learn about Salesforce
architecture related to this business scenario.
Solutions Choose from Salesforce recommended solutions that you can
implement immediately, and put together a roadmap to build out more
mature capabilities over time. To help you find solutions that your
business is ready for right now, we divided resources into three
levels depending on complexity.
Beginning
• Develop a Virtual Strategy for Your Business
• Google Analytics 360 Integration for Marketing Cloud
Intermediate
• Learn Privacy and Data Protection Law
• Protect Your Salesforce Data
• Enhance Service Cloud with Lightning Knowledge
• Administer Marketing Cloud
• Knowledge-Centered Service with Service Cloud
• Deliver IT Success with MuleSoft Catalyst
• MuleSoft Catalyst Playbooks
• Salesforce Blockchain Basics
• Guide to Financial Services Cloud
• File Redacting Search Files and Mask Sensitive Data (AppExchange
App)
• Data Mask Credit Card Masking and Credit Card Detection for
Salesforce (AppExchange App)
• nCico is the Worldwide Leader in Cloud Banking (AppExchange
App)
• Unlock Core Baking Systems and Digitize Customer
Experiences
For more information, contact your Success Manager or Account
Executive.
Business Capabilities For each capability, whether it’s undeveloped
or industry-leading, we provide implementation information that you
can use to increase your business’ maturity.
Foundational Capabilities to Enable Operational Compliance
Increase maturity and drive progress across the business by
implementing automation and tooling, data portability, monitoring,
security architecture, and more.
Marketing Capabilities to Enable Operational Compliance
Create brand and offering awareness for customers, give the retail
bank a rich, in-depth understanding of their customers, and provide
customers with personalized guidance.
Foundational Capabilities to Enable Operational Compliance Increase
maturity and drive progress across the business by implementing
automation and tooling, data portability, monitoring, security
architecture, and more.
AUTOMATION AND TOOLING A standard set of software tools that
enhance and optimize the delivery of software and reduce toil for
product teams.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
systems for sales and marketing. We incorporate most of our change
management, data flow app, and execution processes. We automate
application capabilities, tools, methodologies, and coaching.
Development, security, and operations are on the same team. We
continuously deploy and monitor operations. We automate and focus
on continuous improvement.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
1. Empower applications and systems to deliver business solutions.
Release in predictable, frequent batches. Drive continuous value
delivery to the business and customers.
2. Empower business to build and deploy timely, compliant
applications on secured and robust platforms. Allow technology to
move at the speed of business.
3. Create cross-functional, durable teams that make decisions
quickly. Include the associated skills, roles, and responsibilities
to support the product.
4. Enhance the customer experience by enabling business to support
and administer systems.
DATA PORTABILITY Provide customers the ability to request or
download their customer information in compliance with relevant
privacy laws.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Customers are able to update communication preferences, download
their own data, and request to be removed within a
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
reasonable time frame. However, these features aren’t available
instantaneously or via self-service.
For the most common use cases, self-service capabilities allow
customers to port their data with minimal friction.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Understand and honor what customers indicate they want done with
their data, including the right to be forgotten or
downloaded.
2. Focus IT and business partnerships on permitting data
portability changes that are compliant with regulations and
policies concerning consent and consumer rights.
3. Configure data processes and technology to be adaptable to
changes in regulations and to function across geographic
areas.
4. To accelerate execution and increase trust, reduce the
complexity of the IT footprint. Innovate in the areas of
automation, transparency, continuous integration, and continuous
value delivery.
SECURELY MANAGE THIRD-PARTY INTEGRATIONS Manage performance, ROI,
best practices, and process improvements.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
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A multidisciplinary team releases and installs apps maintained by
separate business lines. Stakeholders meet infrequently.
1 (Beginning)Minimum Maturity Level
One team handles apps, security, and operations. We monitor
business with continuous governance. We use ad hoc ingestion
2 (Emerging)Recommended Maturity Level
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Monitor, add, edit, and track the ingestion flow from iOt
Applications data flows like systems of record, reference, and
engagement.
2. Align high-level stakeholders from business, operations, and IT.
Be aware of app-centric solution reference architecture. Combine
the architecture with a governance and planning process for
enterprise architecture-mapping diagrams.
3. Align and share solution patterns, data flows, and governance
model playbooks from the same data set. Include engagement and
activity updates for program management.
4. Encourage the use of periodic refreshes at least one time per
quarter to ensure alignment with operations and business
lines.
5. Enable individuals outside of sales to communicate changes in
design patterns and data accuracy for distributed leadership. Own
each line of business and operational systems of reference,
engagement, and record.
6. Use relationship management to reflect key individual dynamics
within the distributed application data flows for ingestion.
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE Structure technology to prevent, detect, and
mitigate risks to data and customer trust.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Technical best practices are used in some parts or the
organization, but aren’t used universally.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
All teams follow best practices, but we only update best practices
on an ad hoc basis.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Designate an individual to own and maintain standardized
definitions across all tools, and identify a source of truth.
2. Enable security and performance monitoring, and ensure that your
checks for vulnerabilities include eCDN, WAF, third-party
integrations, bot attacks, and throttling.
3. Ensure that development, security, and operations work together
as one team.
4. Set up continuous deployment and operations monitoring.
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5. Ensure that automation is in place and focused on continuous
improvement.
6. Create a process that supports short lead time to change,
reduced mean recovery times, and frequent deployment.
Success Metrics
• Decrease the percentage of revenue to G&A
• Increase system reliability and resilience
• Increase data accuracy and trust
• Decrease the mean time to recovery
INFORMATION AND DATA ARCHITECTURE Provide structure and artifacts
that help facilitate relationships, access, and data and
information locations, including backup, availability, and
governance.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
A single course of truth architecture exists, but it isn’t
connected to all data centers and back-office teams or
workflows.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
Our architecture delivers a scalable and adaptable platform,
enabling a single source of truth and an end-to-end customer
experience.
5 (Leading)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Create a set of repeatable and transferable practices and
lessons learned by the systems of reference, record, and engagement
across technology tools.
2. Consider basing best practices on industry-leading practices.
Ensure that cross-functional teams support these practices and
commit to their success.
3. Align technology structures with business practices to prevent,
detect, and mitigate risks to data, and to improve the customer
experience, generate customer trust, and break down architectural
silos.
Success Metrics
• Decrease the percentage of revenue to G&A
• Increase system reliability and resilience
• Increase data accuracy and trust
• Decrease the mean time to recovery
MONITORING Judge system health and diagnose problems by collecting
and reviewing data such as metrics, text logging, and structured
event logging.
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DescriptionLevelType
We have policies and procedures in place that all teams follow to
mitigate compliance risks, but they aren’t used uniformly by each
line of business or system.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
Business solutions are delivered and released in predictable,
frequent batches, driving continuous value delivery to the business
and our customers.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Define your initiatives with stakeholders, and communicate with
them about their business objectives and required compliance risk
factors.
2. Ensure that the technology and development processes prioritize
flexibility and swift iteration, and that they use modular, agile
platforms such as minimal custom-code, DevOps/CI/CD practices,
citizen developers, and API-first principles.
3. Establish training and regular reviews of policy and procedures
to standardize risk mitigation practices across all lines of
business.
Success Metrics
• Decrease the lead time to delivery
• Decrease the percentage of revenue to G&A
• Increase data accuracy and trust
• Decrease the mean time to recovery
COMPLIANCE AND RISK MITIGATION Ensure that solutions meet corporate
compliance requirements, and mitigate risk by establishing a set of
policies and procedures that all teams understand and follow.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We have a basic governance framework in place, but our teams don’t
always use it.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
We have a continuously evolving governance framework that guides
alignment, speed, consistency, and trust.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
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Success Metrics
• Reduce governance, development, duplication, rework, and failure
costs
• Reduce operational risk and associated costs
• Increase product or initiative ROI
• Increase speed and percentage attainment of business key
performance indicators
Marketing Capabilities to Enable Operational Compliance Create
brand and offering awareness for customers, give the retail bank a
rich, in-depth understanding of their customers, and provide
customers with personalized guidance.
SINGLE VIEW OF THE CUSTOMER Align relevant data sources at the
individual customer level to support customer-centric marketing
efforts.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We lack a robust identity solution. Less than 25% of high priority
data sources align.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
We have a solid identity resolution, but it could be improved.
About 75% of high-priority data sources align.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Identify the most critical data sources based on customer
lifecycle stages and moments that matter, prioritizing the top 3–5
customer journeys. Use the top journeys to inform business
requirements for data alignment or integration work.
2. Create a data model with primary and secondary customer ID
fields and keys.
3. Use an identity solution to connect users across devices using
deterministic and probabilistic approaches.
4. Add secondary priority data sources.
CUSTOMER-CENTRIC PORTFOLIO PLANNING Use a customer-centric and
iterative process that focuses on defining a vision, strategy, and
roadmap for products and services.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
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DescriptionLevelType
Each line of business has a team that regularly documents and
updates clear business objectives and plans as strategies
change.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
Development, security, and operations are on one team. We
continuously deploy and monitor operations. We automate and focus
on continuous improvement.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Start with a clear vision and strategy. Create business
objectives, ways to achieve them, and metrics to measure
progress.
2. Define stakeholders to help understand vision and strategy from
customer and employee perspectives of the journey.
3. Document obstacles for each of your objectives, and create
action plans for each one. Include technology and strategy
adoption.
4. Define a formal strategy to communicate objectives, metrics, and
obstacles. Ensure alignment among all stakeholders.
DATA GOVERNANCE Deliver positive customer experiences by managing
data assets and usage in accordance with organizational policy and
relevant regulations, including data stewardship, quality,
integrity, privacy, and security.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We have a basic governance framework in place, but our teams don’t
always use the approach across teams.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
We use a policy-focused governance framework to drive efficiency.
Deliverables are inconsistent but match our compliance needs across
the organization.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. To ensure quality, availability, and compliance, strengthen data
governance. Support testing, marketing measurement, and sentiment
analysis by implementing a single view of the customer. Give
business users access to data and insights so they can base
decisions on facts. Make decisions using customer-centric key
performance indicators, such as customer satisfaction, net promoter
score, and customer lifetime value.
2. Grant all internal stakeholders insight into product usage and
performance. Provide customer stakeholders with proactive
insights.
3. We have a comprehensive, policy-oriented governance framework
that ensures on-time delivery of business capabilities at the
metadata level and APIs across all systems and processes.
4. To capture all business process and data flows, connect
corporate, market, and business teams' data with back-office
infrastructure and call centers.
5. Create an omni-channel journey for segments, contact groups,
values, and region with product strategy and mix.
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7. Our organization always organizes teams around desired outcomes,
not functional roles or silos in systems.
8. We follow a documented process to gather, interpret, and share
all insights and product- and service-related data.
Success Metrics
• Increase the average lifetime value per customer
• Reduce the unsubscribe rate, as measured by percentage
• Reduce the average cost per campaign
• Reduce the customer attrition rate
Elevate Digital Experiences Meet customers’ rising expectations for
digital retail banking experiences by delivering personalized and
connected experiences across all channels.
Move beyond the traditional branch, phone, and email service
channels to connect customer self-service, high-touch channels,
data, and bankers in seamless and relevant ways. Let customers
engage using their preferred channel, and provide bankers more time
to focus on complex requests by expanding the use of digital
channels across the entire customer journey.
Products These products can help you streamline and simplify the
compliance process.
• Financial Service Cloud
Solution Architecture Review the Solution Architecture for Retail
Banking Digital Experiences to learn about Salesforce architecture
related to this business scenario.
Solutions Choose from Salesforce recommended solutions that you can
implement immediately, and put together a roadmap to build out more
mature capabilities over time. To help you find solutions that your
business is ready for right now, we divided resources into three
levels depending on complexity.
Beginning
• Reaching the Summit of Success
• Customer Loyalty in Retail Banking
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• Journey Builder: Journey Strategy (Accelerator)
• Email Studio: Admin and Deliverability (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Content Builder (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Data and Segmentation Basics (Accelerator)
• IMarketing Cloud: Email Reporting and Tracking
(Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Agent Productivity Features (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Chat for Lightning (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Lightning (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Dashboard Design (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Digital Engagement (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Deploy Chat (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Set Up Embedded Chat (Accelerator)
• Building a digital banking platform with APIs (Webinar)
• Legacy modernization: Maximize legacy investments
• Make Service Cloud Smarter with Einstein Bots and other AI
features.
• Einstein Bots for Financial Services Cloud (AppExchange)
• Deloitte Digital Bank powered by Salesforce
• How Truist Uses Automation to Provide a Seamless Customer
Experience
• Measure, monitor and grow with Self-Service Experience Best
Practices
• Understanding Community Member Experience to Accelerate Adoption
and Engagement in Digital Experience (Video, 19 minutes)
• Use AppExchange to Extend Digital 360 Solutions with Pre-built
Solutions
• Marketing Cloud: Marketing Cloud Connect Overview
(Accelerator)
• Email Studio: Automate Email Segmentation (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Automate Data Imports (Accelerator)
• Marketing Cloud: Use Marketing Cloud Connect (Accelerator)
• Einstein Case Classification and Next Best Actions
(Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Einstein Bots (Accelerator)
Advanced
• Marketing Cloud: Use Einstein Engagement Scoring
(Accelerator)
For more information, contact your Success Manager or Account
Executive.
Business Capabilities For each capability, whether it’s undeveloped
or industry-leading, we provide implementation information that you
can use to increase your business’ maturity.
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Marketing Capabilities to Elevate Digital Experiences
Create brand and offering awareness for customers, and give the
retail bank a rich, in-depth understanding of their customers, and
provide customers with personalized guidance.
Service Capabilities to Elevate Digital Experiences
Adopt a customer-centric approach based on a complete view of
retail banking customer interaction, and break down silos between
business lines.
Marketing Capabilities to Elevate Digital Experiences Create brand
and offering awareness for customers, and give the retail bank a
rich, in-depth understanding of their customers, and provide
customers with personalized guidance.
CHANNEL STRATEGY AND MIX Target customers with products, services,
marketing, and channels, usually including direct sales, B2B
commerce, and partner relationship management.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Our channel management process follows an established cadence and
incorporates change management, enablement, and execution.
4 (Optimized)Minimum Maturity Level
Our process ensures that sellers have the right incentives, tools,
methodologies, and coaching to perform.
We use cross-channel data to consistently improve customer
experience and drive business decisions, including use of AI
and
5 (Leading)Recommended Maturity Level
marketing automation journeys. We tailor channels to the nuances
for each type of sale.
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Align the channel strategy with the organization’s wider
go-to-market strategy.
2. Collaborate with sales, marketing, business units, and other key
leaders to define a clear channel strategy. Align with the overall
go-to-market strategy.
3. Establish the role, objectives, and targets of each
channel.
4. Establish a framework for deciding the optimal customer,
product, and channel combinations for serving customers.
5. Design for the downstream effects of the channel strategy on
your sales capability and the wider business.
6. Create a consistent customer-centric experience across
channels.
7. Create a uniform buying experience within and across
channels.
8. Use design thinking and customer-centric processes to build
experiences that align with how customers behave. Align with their
preferred way of being served wherever possible.
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CASE MANAGEMENT APPROACH Manage a service request through to
resolution. Include the routing, assignment, ownership, tracing,
and related interactions.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Cases are worked primarily through one system and on-screen UI.
Extra systems and swivel-chairing still exist as needed.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
Cases are worked through one cohesive system that intakes cases,
sorts and routes them into queues, and enables full case lifecycle
tracking and assistance.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Create and define queue priority, and align business and IT to
the case routing process.
2. Define case record types and support processes.
3. Set up Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case.
4. Add an actions and recommendations Lightning component to the
Lightning Service Console or other case record page layouts.
5. Set up a dashboard that surfaces a team’s cases by status for a
manager.
6. Set the organization that’s aligned to actions associated with
lifecycle stages.
7. Create escalation rule criteria, and sort rules from most
complex to least complex.
8. Define business hours.
9. Define escalation actions. When a case escalates, you can send
it to a different queue or user and send an email that notifies the
case owner or others.
10. Create email templates that notify users when a case escalates,
and include quick actions.
11. Set up macros to let service agents quickly respond to
customers in a structured way.
12. Create email templates for case open, case close, and a case
that escalates. Communication is key to ensuring a better customer
satisfaction (CSAT) score.
13. Understand, track, and resolve customer service needs and
questions that align with priorities and affect strategic business
value.
CASE ROUTING AND ASSIGNMENT Assign ownership of service requests
based on type of request, relevant agent skills, availability, and
equitable distribution based on agent performance goals.
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DescriptionLevelType
Requests are routed to agents or queues based on interactive voice
response selection.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
Requests are routed to agents based on their relevant skills. The
routing system accounts for agent availability and current
workload.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
the recommended best practices.
• Align business and IT to the case routing process.
• Define case record types.
• Categorize and triage service requests early for accurate
handling.
• Escalate request resolution based on priority and service level
agreement (SLA) expectations.
• Automatically relate multi-channel correspondence and resolution
notes to the case lifecycle providing productivity gains.
• Use assignment rules to automate service request
assignment.
• Use omni-channel routing to automatically match cases to the
agent with the best skill set to solve them.
• Allow higher maturity customers to route service requests
directly to agents based on relevant expertise and
availability.
CASE LIFECYCLE Define milestones within the lifecycle of cases, and
align the service organization around them.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
A process exists to escalate request resolution based on priority
and SLA expectations. Agent queues and skills are maintained yearly
and measured with CSAT scores.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
Agents are able to quickly understand, track, and resolve customer
needs. Issues are handled by the appropriate agent, who has
access
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
to interaction and lifecycle history. Agents have access to the
360-degree view of the customer.
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
the recommended best practices.
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1. Assign service agents to cases according to criteria like
geographical region, language, and skill set required for
successful resolution.
2. Train agents for new skills and as new products and services are
introduced.
3. Ensure that all items in the backlog are prioritized. To enable
regular, high-quality releases, follow a standard development
approach using a common set of tools.
Success Metrics
• Decrease the number of open cases
CASE COLLABORATION Allow service agents to work cross-functionally
and communicate in real time to address customer needs and resolve
service requests.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Multiple stakeholders can collaborate on the same service request.
Agents are trained to @mention relevant personnel to assist on
service requests.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
We use feedback to enhance knowledge management. We implemented
cross-service sharing and collaboration.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. Create public chatter groups for each entitlement level that
allows reps to ask their colleagues questions.
2. Create chatter groups for each service team.
3. Create reports and dashboards for service leadership to monitor
chatter adoption.
4. Encourage service leadership to use chatter.
5. Use Quip for service, and connect Quip to Salesforce. Add Quip
as a tab on the case record so agents can collaborate in real time
on documents.
CASE NOTIFICATIONS Notify customers of key milestones as their
service request progresses.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
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DescriptionLevelType
Agents manage inbound and outbound omni-channel requests in a
console, and they have in-console access to respond to follow-up
requests via phone, chat, email, or on the case.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
All of our agents have access to a 360-degree view of the customer,
so every agent can quickly understand, track, and resolve
needs.
3 (Practicing)Recommended Maturity Level
Cases are routed to the appropriate agent, with interaction and
lifecycle history.
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
the recommended best practices.
1. Implement a system that allows for building, testing, and
releasing valuable system features with greater speed and frequency
while maintaining quality.
2. Provide agents with a single source of truth for all case and
case collaboration data.
3. Employ system administrations at scale, using employees’ or
customers’ preferred channels.
Success Metrics
• Increase the case resolution rate
• Reduce the number of open cases
UNIFIED AGENT EXPERIENCE APPROACH Improve customer satisfaction by
smoothing agent-customer interactions, even when customers move
from one agent to another. Deliver proactive, contextual
information in a unified way that empowers agents and reduces
effort.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We collect end user feedback. We have a strategy for creating a
unified, intuitive experience for service agents.
2 (Emerging)Minimum Maturity Level
Our service agents work cases through one connected process and use
other systems only when necessary.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
the recommended best practices.
• Integrate all support channels. Provide access using an
integrated interface that keeps information on context, smooths
interactions, and reduces repetition.
• Provide agents with relevant customer context so they can provide
the best service. Equip agents with tools for effective
collaboration with other teams, such as case swarming
ability.
• Empower agents to gather and build on collective knowledge to
improve the knowledge base and self-service outcomes.
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• Measure and improve the entire customer experience using support
data and customer analytics.
SELF SERVICE REQUEST TYPES Allow customers to circumvent agent
interaction by providing a direct, contextual channel. Offer issue
resolution, profile management, learning, buying, service, and
community questions and answers.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Customers work more complex service requests through the
self-service channel. We surface recommended Knowledge articles
based on key service request characteristics.
4 (Optimized)Minimum Maturity Level
5 (Leading)Recommended Maturity Level
more use cases for self-service to reduce volume on other channels.
Most requests are deflected with the use of AI and chatbots.
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
these recommendations.
1. To create efficient and effective connected experiences,
consider customer expectations with sales, service, and
commerce.
2. Be aware of partner relationship management (PRM) strategies in
a blended channel approach. Don’t cause clashing or competing
behaviors.
3. Create a dedicated ecommerce B2B manager role that manages the
company’s B2B commerce portal. Implement a digital team strategy,
appoint ownership to an existing sales or service role, and
identify process optimizations for service, sales, and PRM.
4. To ensure that sales and marketing leaders design in a
customer-centric way, engage design thinking concepts.
5. Suggested solutions from self-service, such as Knowledge
articles, help users solve cases quickly without interaction from
agents.
6. Enable suggested articles when a partner, employee, or customer
enters a new case. Configure the search engine to automatically
look for articles that have keywords in common with the
admin-selected case fields.
7. To create optimizations in service for agents and channels,
enable AI for machine learning.
8. Manage variations in relationships across the channel mix by
creating a support steering committee that aligns with the
go-to-market strategy. Consider these angles for all
variations.
• What teams are in place to support across programs?
• Are there enough resources to support?
• What is the plan to address resource scarcity?
• How are resources shared among the teams?
9. Ensure that actions reflect the desired customer perception of
your company values by selecting and enabling customers with the
right capabilities.
10. Consider policies in areas such as customer claims management
and return material authorizations (RMAs), channel partner claims
management, corrective action and preventive action (CAPA) root
cause analysis, and supplier recovery.
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• Increase customer satisfaction ratings
• Increase customer retention rates
MESSAGING CHANNEL Connect with your customers via messaging
platforms such as SMS, Facebook Message, or WhatsApp.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
We support just one messaging platform.1 (Minimal)Minimum Maturity
Level
Our agents are trained to support multiple messaging channels. We
have defined key performance indicators for every chat channel we
support.
2 (Emerging)Recommended Maturity Level
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
the recommended best practices.
1. Identify priority chat channels, and locations and products to
deploy messaging.
2. Organize your content to align to the right channels.
3. Establish operations and strategic key performance
indicators.
4. Create and assign messaging permission sets.
5. Set up messaging channels.
6. Set up channels and routing.
7. Create auto-response messages and quick texts.
8. Test and deploy.
• Increase service and support sales amounts
• Reduce the number of agents needed per customer
CHATBOTS Enable chatbots to deflect the most frequent support
requests and improve agent workload.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
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Chat is enabled. Basic conversation is available to customers for
specific products or services.
1 (Minimal)Minimum Maturity Level
Chatbots are enabled across most services and used to answer
routine questions.
2 (Emerging)Recommended Maturity Level
Best Practices
To increase your business maturity for the capability, implement
the recommended best practices.
1. Identify the most frequent support requests.
2. Create chat and chatbot use cases.
3. Define routing requirements.
4. Establish clear success measures, for example, bot escalation
rates.
5. Identify key stakeholders within service and marketing for
testing and design.
6. Configure and deploy.
7. Script chatbot dialogues and assign chatbots to the designated
channel.
Success Metrics
• Increase the first contact resolution rate
• Increase service and support sales amount
• Reduce the number of agents needed per customer
Transform Service Engagements Deliver more intelligent service by
unifying retail bankers, operations staff, and support agents
around a single, shared system.
Customers don’t want to repeat their story every time they interact
with the bank. Repetition becomes frustrating, especially when the
customer has a complex service request that requires multiple
touches and extended time to resolve.
Remove barriers by creating a connected, personalized experience
across channels and locations. Connect AI to offload standard
service requests, speeding case resolution and giving bankers and
agents more time to focus on complex requests. When engagements are
built around the customer journey, every channel and employee work
from the same single source of truth in resolving requests.
Products These products can help you create customer
profiles.
• Financial Service Cloud
Solution Architecture Review the Banking Solution Architecture for
Service Engagements Scenario on page 12 to learn about Salesforce
architecture related to this business scenario.
Solutions Choose from Salesforce recommended solutions that you can
implement immediately, and put together a roadmap to build out more
mature capabilities over time. To help you find solutions that your
business is ready for right now, we divided resources into three
levels depending on complexity.
Beginning
• Service Cloud: Lightning (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud : Dashboards Fast Start (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Dashboard Design (Accelerator)
• Financial Services Cloud Basics
• How To: Service Cloud: Plan your CTI Implementation
Intermediate
• Service Cloud: Automate Work Distribution With Omni-Channel
(Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Automate Your Case Management (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Deploy Messaging (Accelerator)
• Structure Your Data in Financial Services Cloud
• Connect with Customers Using Financial Services Cloud
• Financial Services Cloud Specialist
• Service Cloud: Automate Your Case Management (Accelerator)
• Service Cloud: Deploy Messaging (Accelerator)
Advanced
• Build Great APIs and Integrations with MuleSoft
• API Lifecycle Management with Anypoint Platform
• Go Digital Fast with the Salesforce Customer 360
• The Easiest Path from Salesforce Lead to Loan in Blend
(AppExchange App)
• Streamline Account Opening with Onfido (AppExchange App)
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• Q2 Lending - Powerful Digital Lending and Leasing Solutions
(AppExchange App)
• Financial Services Cloud Administrator Guide
• Financial Services Cloud Developer Guide
• Financial Service Firms Find Value in APIs
For more information, contact your Success Manager or Account
Executive.
Business Capabilities For each capability, whether it’s undeveloped
or industry-leading, we provide implementation information that you
can use to increase your business’ maturity.
Foundational Capabilities to Transform Service Engagements
Increase maturity and drive progress across the business by
implementing customer-centric performance planning and a business
value model.
Marketing Capabilities to Transform Service Engagements
Create brand and offering awareness for customers, give the retail
bank a rich, in-depth understanding of their customers, and provide
customers with personalized guidance.
Foundational Capabilities to Transform Service Engagements Increase
maturity and drive progress across the business by implementing
customer-centric performance planning and a business value
model.
CUSTOMER-CENTRIC PORTFOLIO PLANNING Use a customer-centric and
iterative process that focuses on defining a vision, strategy, and
roadmap for products and services.
Capability Maturity
The minimum maturity level represents the most basic viable
implementation. Learn More
DescriptionLevelType
Each line of business has a team that regularly documents and
updates clear business objectives and plans as strategies
change.
3 (Practicing)Minimum Maturity Level
Development, security, and operations are on the same team. We
continuously deploy and monitor operations. We automate and focus
on continuous improvement.
4 (Optimized)Recommended Maturity Level
To increase your business maturi